Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration officials, would further fighting have attracted support abroad or at home. No allies urged the U.S. to move in, and most of the Arab coalition members remain anxious to get U.S. troops out. Bush aides charge that many of the critics either were indulging in moralistic posturing or were just eager to knock the President. "Can you imagine how we would be pounded if we were 'bogged down' in an 'inconclusive civil war' in Iraq?" asks one official...
...intervene is coming from columnists and commentators," said a senior presidential aide. He and other Bush advisers contend that the American public overwhelmingly wants U.S. troops to be brought home as rapidly as possible. Another White House official adds that "our coalition partners," both European and Arab, "don't want us getting involved in Iraq's internal affairs" either. If the U.S. were to choose sides, it would be exceeding the U.N. mandates under which it fought the war, and with little support abroad or at home...
Only two years after invading Kuwait, our old acquaintance Saddam Hussein (looking healthy and heavily re-armed by the French and the Chinese) has just welcomed his fellow Arab leaders--including the Emir of Kuwait and the King of Saudi Arabia--to the Arab League summit. Cordiality and warm embraces have replaced the fighting words of the "Kuwait incident," and the failure of the West to make progress on the Palestinian issue has reunited the Arabs in their hatred of the "Zionist occupying entity," Israel, and its allies in Europe and North America...
...ADMIT that this scenario is my version of a "nightmare scenario" (remember the State Department's version: a peaceful Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait). There is a (however dwindling) possibility that Saddam Hussein will be overthrown. There is hope that the Arab world will come to terms with the reality of Israel, accept its existence and thereby convince the Israelis to trade occupied land for peace with the Palestinians. And there is hope that the Arab societies will allow for greater freedom and greater responsibility on the part of their people, providing them with a more just and humane existence...
...thousands of unnecessary bombs and bullets. Apologize for not adhering to the very principles upon which we had justified this intervention. Apologize for our hypocrisy in asserting that we can't meddle in Iraq's internal affairs (in fact, the first truly democratic movement in many years in the Arab world) when we could commit 500,000 troops to returning the emir of Kuwait to his palace...